During Network X 2026, the World Broadband Association (WBBA) hosted the Broadband Development Congress (BDC) in Vienna, where Bob Chen, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line, delivered a keynote titled “Reshaping Network Value for New Growth in the AI Era.” He emphasized the necessity of shifting network construction concepts in... read more

stc Group has announced free, unlimited outgoing and incoming calls for its customers roaming outside the Kingdom, to and from Saudi Arabia, for a period of one week starting Monday, 12 October 2026. The initiative stems from the Group’s commitment to enabling its customers to stay connected with their loved ones and families inside the Kingdom,... read more

Nokia has announced a new 50G/25G/10G/GPON line card that gives operators the flexibility to evolve their fiber networks at their own pace and prepare for the demands of the AI era. As AI transforms how consumers, businesses, and industries use networks, richer content, greater cloud interaction, and growing upstream traffic are increasing... read more

NVIDIA and Cisco have announced plans for the Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), a new high-density 400Gb/s-per-lane optical module designed to equip the hardware ecosystem for the next generation of AI factories using pluggable transceivers. As AI models grow and inference demand expands, AI factories must connect more computing... read more

Eutelsat has announced the renewal of its long-standing partnership with Antik Sat, the direct-to-home (DTH) television platform operated by Antik Telecom, and A1, one of Central and Eastern Europe’s leading communications providers. The new multi-transponder agreement reinforces the companies’ commitment to delivering high-quality television... read more

Nokia has signed a definitive agreement regarding the proposed acquisition by AURELIUS of its Enterprise Campus Edge (ECE) business. The planned transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2027, subject to customary closing conditions. As a standalone business under AURELIUS’s ownership, ECE is expected to benefit from greater... read more

At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2026, Cisco introduced new silicon, systems, and optical innovations that advance open AI infrastructure from rack-scale compute to distributed AI capacity. Together, the announcements demonstrate how Cisco is engineering the network as a coherent, programmable architecture while preserving the... read more

The SAMENA Telecommunications Council Leaders’ AXIS 2026 concluded in Muscat, bringing together Omani and international stakeholders to examine how the Sultanate can create greater economic and commercial value from its digital infrastructure, international connectivity, technology capabilities, innovation activity, and investment opportunities.... read more